Let's get conjugating.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Yesterday we learned the word Es, but as you may know,

Es is only one part of Ser, a big Spanish verb with many different forms to learn.

We have to use different forms of verbs in English, too.

We have to change the word is to different forms based on what we're talking about.

So, for example, let's say we're dealing with this

nonsensical sentence, food is my friend. And then let's play the potato head game by changing the

nouns that come before and after the word is. These are my friends. The word is changed to are. And we can change it further. I am your friend.

He was my friend. So the word is has changed forms based on the sentence around it. And that's because

this verb isn't just one word.

It's more like a whole family of words that all mean the same thing,

but they appear in different ways depending on the context.

The parent of all of these words in English is the verb to be.

And in Spanish, the parent is ser, spelled S-E-R. So the word S that we learned

yesterday is just one of many, many forms of ser, just like the word is, is one form of the verb

to be. What we're learning to do is what we call conjugating, or changing the

verb to agree with what it goes with. In English, if the person is I, you say am. But if the person

is they, you say are. Generally speaking, for most of the Spanish-speaking world, there are five types of people

associated with any verb. There's I, there's you, there's he, she, or it, there's we, and there's

they. Each of these gets a different verb conjugation. So we already know

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